Komsomolsk (Ivanovo)

city Komsomolsk Комсомольск Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Rajon Komsomolsk head Irina Novikova Founded 1931 City since 1950 surface 7  km² population 8,693 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1242 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 145  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (49352) Post Code 155150 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 213 501 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 2 '  N , 40 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 2 '0 "  N , 40 ° 23' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Komsomolsk ( Russian Комсомольск ) is a small town in the Ivanovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,693 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 35 km west of the Oblast capital Ivanovo on the Uchtochma , a right tributary of the Uvod in the river system of the Volga .

Komsomolsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Komsomolsk arose near the old village of Milovskoye from 1927 in connection with the construction of the Ivanovo thermal power station . After the power plant went into operation on October 5, 1930, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1931 (considered the year of foundation). The place is named after the youth organization Komsomol .

In 1950 city rights were granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	15,734
1959	11,103
1970	12,320
1979	12,333
1989	11,587
2002	9,595
2010	8,693

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Komsomolsk the former village church is Nativity of Milowskoje ( Рождественская церковь / Roschdestwenskaja Zerkow) of 1771. In 1568 ready documentary mentioned village Piszowo is Auferstehungskirche ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Zerkow) received from the 1748th

Economy and Infrastructure

At Komsomolsk there is the Ivanovo thermal power station ( Ивановская ГРЭС / Ivanovskaya GRES) , which was originally operated with peat but is now powered by heating oil, with an output of 214  megawatts . The expansion to 700 megawatts is planned. There are smaller companies in electrical engineering and hydraulic equipment manufacturing, the textile and food industry and the timber industry.

The city is the end point of a 35 kilometer long railway line from Ivanovo (freight traffic only).

Web links

• Komsomolsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)